Peter D. Stachura

Peter Desmond Stachura (born August 2, 1944 in Galashiels ) is a British historian .

Life and activity

Stachura was born in Great Britain as the son of a Polish refugee - a member of the Polish army who made his way to the West after the German occupation of Poland and during the further course of the war belonged to the Polish army in exile belonging to the British armed forces. After leaving school, he studied history at St. Mirins RC Academy in Paisley , Glasgow University and East Anglia University . He obtained a Masters degree in Glasgow in 1967 and his PhD degree in East Anglia in 1971. From 1970 to 1971 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for European History in Mainz.

From 1971 to 1983 Stachura was a lecturer at Stirling University . In 1983 he got a position there as a reader. In 2000 he was also appointed director of the Center for Polish History, established at Stirling University.

Stachura's main research interests in the 1970s and 1980s were the early history of the National Socialist movement and party as well as the social history of the Weimar Republic. At that time he published a biography of the head of the Reich Organization of the NSDAP, Gregor Strasser, as well as monographs on the Hitler Youth and the German youth movement in general and on the problem of unemployment in the Weimar Republic. Since the 1990s he has mainly devoted himself to the Polish history of the 20th century and specifically to Polish history from 1919 to 1945 as well as the history of Polish emigrants in Great Britain and especially Scotland.

Stachura is married to Kay Higgins and has one son.

Fonts

• Nazi Youth in the Weimar Republic , 1975.
• The Weimar Era and Hitler. A Critical Bibliography , ...
• The Shaping of the Nazi State , London 1978.
• “The Strasser case. Gregor Strasser, Hitler and National Socialism 1930–1932 “, in: Ders .: The Shaping of the Nazi State , 1978, pp. 88–126.
• The German Youth Movement, 1900-1945. An interpretative and documentary History , 1981.
• Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism , London 1983.
• Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany , New York 1986.
• The Weimar Republic and the younger Proletariat , Houndmills 1989.
• Themes of Modern Polish History , 1992.
• Political Leaders in Weimar Germany , New York 1993.
• Poland Between the Wars , 1998.
• Poland in the Twentieth Century 1999.
• Perspectives on Polish History , 2001.
• The Poles in Britain 1940-2000. From Betrayal to Assimilation , 2003.

literature

• Who is Who in Scotland , 1994, p. 413.